Inspired by the incendiary bestseller, which exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry, Linklater's film traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of interlocked human stories; a hopeful young immigrant couple, who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, a teen clerk, who dreams of life beyond the counter, and a corporate marketing whiz, who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention, "The Big One", is literally full of sh
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FOOD INC (2010)

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Mmmmm... bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, tomatoes that fight the right to rot... yep, bring it on. Oh hang on... 'Food Inc' is a timely observation of the (American) mechanisation and corporate monopoly of grub in all its forms; a likely template for the rest of the world and a very worrying prospect.
Featuring interviews with Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food..), this is a very relevant documentary even if
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MCLIBEL (2005)

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When THE fast food chain issued a libel action against activists Helen Steel and Dave Morris in 1990, demanding an apology for allegations they had made in a leaflet, the corporate giant didn't expect the pair to not only refuse to apologise, but to actually invite McBully to bring it on. Absolutely nobody expected it to take 15 years and a victory for the pair at the European Court of Human Rights for the case to come to an end. Here the whole story is told with the requisite amount of humour
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